sun-dried tomato salad

In our country, sun-dried tomatoes are less common than, for example, in Italy. Italians eat tomatoes all year round and it has already become a tradition to use tomatoes in all the most incredible forms from our point of view. Meanwhile, properly cooked sun-dried tomatoes with spices and oil are a real delicacy, once you taste it, you want to come back again and again. Without exaggeration, they can be called a delicacy, if not in terms of cost, then in terms of the amount of labor invested.

Although everyone can make their own sun-dried tomatoes at home. They will cost much less and you can enjoy their amazing taste as much as you like.

Dried tomatoes can be used for decoration, as a filling for sandwiches, put them in hot dishes - soups, pasta. They go well with many foods when cold, so they are widely used in salads. The important thing is that by putting sun-dried tomatoes in a jar and pouring vegetable oil (preferably olive), they can be stored in the refrigerator for a long time.

Some recipes recommend soaking sun-dried tomatoes in water before using them, but this loses much of their rich, savory flavor. In general, this product has a number of useful properties. This is the case when you can say with confidence - both tasty and healthy.

Dried tomatoes contain a lot of vitamins and trace elements, they contribute to good digestion, they are considered a real antidepressant. They contain the so-called happiness hormone serotonin, from which our mood rises and efficiency increases. There are studies that have confirmed the positive effect of this product on brain cells - eating dried tomatoes improves memory and intelligence.

Sun-dried tomatoes contain a lot of potassium, which is necessary for proper cardiac activity. This delicacy product reduces the risk of blood clots and generally improves the condition of blood vessels. It is considered a good prevention of vision problems. Helps to get rid of edema, removing excess fluid.

Sun-dried tomatoes can be a delicious dish and a great appetizer on their own, but they are added to a wide variety of other dishes, from pizza to pasta and risotto. They are combined with fish, meat, and various vegetables. We have collected for you some of the most interesting salad recipes in our opinion, which include dried tomatoes. We hope that you will find something to cook for your family and guests.

How to cook sun-dried tomato salad - 17 varieties

Here's what we'll be using in this recipe:

• any lettuce leaves, salad mix or just arugula
• Sun-dried tomatoes
• fresh cherry tomatoes
• cucumber
• fresh cheese Mozzarella
• Pine nuts
• hard Parmesan cheese

We invite you to see in detail how this salad is prepared. It turns out exquisite and pleases with a truly unusual taste.

Take these products:

• chicken breast 0.5 kg
• radicchio 1 head
• asparagus ⅕ kg
• dried tomatoes 3 pcs.
• garlic 1 pc.
• olive oil 60 ml
• vinegar 20 ml
• brown sugar 10 g
• ground black pepper 5 g
• sea ​​salt 5 g

You can add a little soy sauce to chicken meat.

Let's start cooking salad with chicken, asparagus and radicchio:

1. Cut the chicken into thin strips and fry in a pan with hot oil. Here we add asparagus without cuttings with stems cut into 3 parts and finely chopped garlic. We put salt and spices.
2. While the chicken is fried, prepare the dressing from olive oil, vinegar (if any, then raspberry), sugar, salt and pepper.
3. Dried tomatoes are also cut into strips.
4. Divide the radicchio into individual leaves and place on a serving dish.
5. We put fried chicken and asparagus on the greens of the ridicchio, put the tomatoes on top and pour over the dressing. Salad ready.

The composition of the salad is very simple:

• Sun-dried tomatoes,
• corn,
• arugula,
• pickled onion,

Fairly simple and affordable ingredients in a small amount, but the result is amazing.

Watch the video to see for yourself.

A very charming salad and a great dinner or lunch! :) Maximum benefit and a volcano of taste - try it!

We take the following products:

• Long-grain rice 1.5 cups +- (h=180 ml);
• Cherry tomatoes 200 gr.;
• Dried tomatoes 7-10 pcs.;
• Black olives 200 g;
• A handful of pine nuts;
• A bunch of parsley.

Refueling:

• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 4-6 tbsp olive oil (also use tomato oil)
• 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar

This salad is prepared like this:

1. We will not talk about such simple things as the correct cooking of rice - you can always find out in the corresponding article. And there is nothing else to cook here.
2. Roast the nuts in a skillet.
3. We divide small cherry tomatoes into 4 parts each.
4. Cut the olives into rings.
5. We also chop sun-dried tomatoes and parsley.
6. Now in a volumetric container we combine all the prepared ingredients and add the dressing, which we prepare separately.
7. Leave the salad to stand for 15 minutes and serve, garnished with olive rings.

If you do not have sun dried tomatoes, you can easily get out of the situation this way. Ordinary fresh tomatoes (you can use the same cherry tomatoes) cut into halves, put skin side down on a frying pan or baking sheet, sprinkle with spices on top and drip vegetable oil. Put in the oven for about half an hour. It's not exactly sun-dried tomatoes, but it looks and tastes just as good!

We will prepare a salad from the following products:

• olive oil
• balsamic vinegar
• basil
• sun-dried tomatoes
• suluguni cheese or mozzarella
• olives
• bulb red
• salt pepper
• leaf salad

We invite you to get acquainted with the cooking process, filmed in the following video.

A very light spring salad with a pleasant spicy taste. Especially good after long holidays with plentiful feasts.

The products in it are:

• Salad mix - 200 g
• Soft cheese with white mold - 0.5 pack
• Dried tomatoes - 30 g
• Crimean bow - 1
• Refueling:
• Honey - 1 tsp
• Olive oil - 20 ml
• Balsamic vinegar - 10 ml

Now get acquainted with the process of preparing this salad:

1. The onion will need to be cut into thin rings or half rings if possible. The cheese must first be cut diagonally, so that later thin triangles are obtained.
2. Prepare the dressing - to do this, beat all the ingredients with a blender or whisk until smooth.
3. Mix salad mix with sun-dried tomatoes and onions. Pour dressing, knead with tongs or two forks. Then repeat the operation with the addition of cheese. Serve this salad immediately after preparation. Bon appetit!

There are only three components in this salad, but in taste it will not yield to the most "fancy" dishes - elegant and original. After all, everything ingenious is simple!

Products:

• 250 g dried cherry tomatoes
• 100 g cheese
• arugula

The video below shows the entire simple cooking process step by step. Watch and cook with pleasure!

Penne is a pasta that goes well with sun-dried tomatoes and can be either a separate salad or a side dish for a meat dish, such as a layered meat loaf.

Here's what we'll need:

• Penne - 400 g
• Garlic - 3 s
• Provencal herbs
• Dried tomatoes - 6
• Olive oil

To decorate a dish:

• Leaf lettuce - 1-2 bunches (I have "Ketezh" salad, salad mustard, regular leaf lettuce)
• Greens of dill and parsley.
• Dried tomatoes - 7-8 halves.

For refueling:

• Olive oil - 2 tbsp. l.
• Balsamic vinegar - 1 tsp
• Lemon juice - 2 tsp
• Sugar - 0.5 tsp
• ground pepper
• Grainy mustard - 1 tsp

Here is how we will prepare this dish:

1. Boil pasta.
2. We heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the garlic on it along with the Provence herbs - this way the oil turns out to be a very rich garlic flavor. Throw sun-dried tomatoes here for 5 minutes. And finally add the penne.
3. Prepare dressing and serve.
4. Place lettuce leaves on a beautiful shallow plate, on which we spread penne with tomatoes. Or if you are serving with a meat appetizer, then it is better to put the meat in the center (on the leaves), then the penne.
5. Top everything with dressing and serve. Bon appetit!

Let's prepare the following products for this dish:

• salad mix 75 g - root and chard
• fresh cucumber 2.
• brie cheese 50 g (can be replaced with Camembert)
• sun-dried tomatoes 50 g
• pine nuts 20 g
• olive oil 40 ml
• pickle 20 ml from olives
• garlic 1 z
• balsamic vinegar to taste
• grated parmesan cheese 20 g

Watch a video about how these products make an aesthetic and very tasty dish with a somewhat unusual, original taste for us.

Salad Ingredients:

• avocado half
• cherry tomatoes 10 pcs.
• dried tomatoes 3
• salad mix
• hard cheese 30 g
• pine nuts 1 handful
• olive oil 2 tbsp. l.
• balsamic vinegar 1 tsp.
• apple cider vinegar 1 tsp
• pepper salt

The process of preparing a salad with avocado, sun-dried tomatoes and pine nuts comes down to the following steps:

1. Pine nuts will need to be dried a little.
2. Cut fresh cherry tomatoes into halves, dried thinner.
3. Remove the pulp from the avocado and chop.
4. Mix everything, add dressing and put on lettuce leaves or in a salad bowl (in this case, first put lettuce leaves in a separate container, then everything else and mix).
5. Garnish the salad with thin flakes of cheese (they can be cut with a potato peeler) and pine nuts, which are sprinkled on the finished dish.

If sun-dried tomatoes are not dry, but in oil, then it is better to cut them larger. Hard cheese is better to take fragrant, such as parmesan.

Products for the salad will require the following:

• Champignon
• Sun-dried tomatoes
• lemon juice
• bell pepper
• Red onion
• greenery

You can find out more by watching the video below. The salad is easy to digest and healthy. Well, you can judge the taste for yourself - we hope that you will not be disappointed)

We take such products for salad with sun-dried tomatoes and bows:

• pasta bows 150 g
• pine nuts 50 g
• fresh spinach 1 bunch
• dried tomatoes 3 pcs.
• green onion 1 bunch
• red chili pepper 1 pc.
• olive oil 20 ml
• ground black pepper 5 g
• sea ​​salt 7 g

Dried tomatoes can be immediately added to the olive dressing.

Let's cook a delicious, hearty and healthy salad with bows and sun-dried tomatoes:

1. Cut the onion and pepper thinly, slightly diagonally, after removing the seeds from the pepper.
2. Dry the nuts in a frying pan.
3. Grind spinach and sun-dried tomatoes (you can use strips on the tonic).
4. We boil the pasta and at this time we are preparing a dressing from olive oil, chili pepper, which we cut, and ordinary pepper.
5. Drain pasta, mix with onion, sun-dried tomatoes and spinach, pour over dressing.
6. Sprinkle nuts on top.

This dish can be served as a side dish, warm or cold as a salad. Tasty and so and so.

We select products from the list:

• salad mix
• pickles
• sun-dried tomatoes in olive oil
• olives
• Chees Feta
• prosciutto
• olive oil and spices

The cooking process is recorded on video, which you can watch right now.

Very tasty and, most importantly, unusual salad! Treat yourself and your loved ones to an exquisite dish according to the original recipe.

Here is what we will prepare this salad from:

• seafood cocktail 500 g
• broccoli 400 g
• sweet pepper (red and green) 1 pc.
• lemon juice 2 tbsp
• green olives stuffed with anchovies 200 g
• green beans 300 g
• handful of shelled walnuts
• olive oil 2 tbsp
• a handful of sundried tomatoes

For refueling:

• olive oil 200 ml
• juice of 0.5 lemon
• salt, black pepper

Now let's see how a seafood salad with vegetables and sun-dried tomatoes is prepared:

1. Boil seafood in salted water for several minutes, drain the water and let cool.
2. We do the same with the bean pods, then fry them for a few more minutes in olive oil.
3. We also boil broccoli, after disassembling it into inflorescences. Add a tablespoon of olive oil to the boiling water.
4. We put the washed pepper in the oven for 15 minutes and after cooling, remove the skin, remove the seeds, cut the pulp into thin strips.
5. It remains to mix everything and pour over the dressing, which we prepare from olive oil with lemon juice and spices.
6. We spread it in a large salad bowl or in portions, sprinkle with nuts and sun-dried tomatoes on top. Bon appetit!

Let's take for him:

• green iceberg lettuce
• dried cherry
• bell pepper
• zucchini

Few ingredients means little cooking time. But a completely unusual combination and a very interesting taste. Watch the video and prepare your culinary masterpiece!

Couscous is an interesting cereal, which is prepared from durum wheat or barley, rice. It can be attributed to dietary products, useful and recommended for use by almost everyone. An interesting feature of couscous is that this cereal goes very well in salads with a variety of products. Its grains are saturated with the taste of the "neighbors" and become unusually pleasant. We invite you to prepare an unusual salad called tabbouleh, in which couscous is almost perfectly combined with sun-dried tomatoes.

For him, we will take the following products:

• Couscous 150 g
• Dried tomatoes 100 g
• Sweet pepper 200 g
• Hot water 250 ml.
• Cashew nuts, pine nuts or walnuts 40 g
• Juice of one lemon
• Olive oil 3 tbsp
• cilantro or parsley 15 sprigs
• Mint 10 sprigs
• Asafoetida or green onion
• Salt, black pepper
• Lettuce for garnish

You can complement this salad with olives and capers.

Look at the video, what is what and how to do it - everything is told in detail, there will be no ambiguities after watching.

In this salad, the tender flesh is very successfully complemented by the spicy and salty taste of sun-dried tomatoes, giving together a piquant unusual taste.

The products we need are:

• Arugula leaves 200 g
• Pumpkin seeds, roasted 20 g
• Iceberg 120 g
• Sunflower seeds, roasted 20 g
• Avocado 2 pcs
• Dried tomatoes (confit) 300 g
• Olive oil 100 ml
• White balsamic vinegar 30 ml
• Salt, pepper, sugar to taste

How to prepare a salad, see the video recipe, which also gives detailed recommendations for serving and decorating.